Deaths of Others The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars

Name: Deaths of Others The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars
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ISBN: 9780199934010

ISBN-10: 0199934010

ISBN-13: 9780199934010

Edition: 2012

Authors: John Tirman

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Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq; over 1,000 in Afghanistan--and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for?This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirman answers inThe Deaths of Others. Between six and seven million people died in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq alone, the majority of them civilians. And yet Americans devote little attention to these deaths. Other countries, however, do pay attention, and Tirman argues…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.90" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

John Tirman currently serves as a trustee of International Alert, a major conflict-prevention NGO in London. He is the author of "Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade".




Introduction: Death and Remembrance in American Wars



American Wars and the Culture of Violence



Strategic Bombing in the Second World War



The Korean War: The Hegemony of Forgetting



The Vietnam War: The High Cost of Credibility



The Reagan Doctrine: Savage War by Proxy



Iraq: The Twenty Years' War



Afghanistan: Hot Pursuit on Terrorism's Frontier



Three Atrocities and the Rules of Engagement



Counting: A Single Death Is a Tragedy, a Million Deaths Are a Statistic



The Epistemology of War


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index